Background With limited agricultural land and increasing human population, it is essential to
enhance overall photosynthesis and thus productivity. Oxygenic photosynthesis begins with …

Oxygen is a natural acceptor of electrons in the respiratory pathway of aerobic organisms
and in many other biochemical reactions. Aerobic metabolism is always associated with the …

Plants and algae require light for photosynthesis, but absorption of too much light can lead
to photo‐oxidative damage to the photosynthetic apparatus and sustained decreases in the …

The photosynthetic responses of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) leaves to different levels of
drought stress were analyzed in potted plants cultivated in growth chamber under moderate …

Cyanobacteria have evolved elaborate electron transport pathways to carry out
photosynthesis and respiration, and to dissipate excess energy in order to limit cellular …

Plants in natural environments must cope with diverse, highly dynamic, and unpredictable
conditions. They have mechanisms to enhance the capture of light energy when light …

The fast (up to 1 s) chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence induction (FI) curve, measured under
saturating continuous light, has a photochemical phase, the O–J rise, related mainly to the …

Since the publication of the previous editions of the Handbook of Photosynthesis, many new
ideas on photosynthesis have emerged in the past decade that have drawn the attention of …

Like all aerobic organisms, plants and algae co-opt reactive oxygen species (ROS) as
signalling molecules to drive cellular responses to changes in their environment. In this …

Like no other chemical or physical parameter, the natural light environment of plants
changes with high speed and jumps of enormous intensity. To cope with this variability …